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You're considering one case. But in a modern western country, citizenship comes with many benefits. It obliges the country to educate the immigrant's kids for free for 13 years each. It obliges the country to extend its social welfare programs to the immigrant and his family. It's reasonable for the country to want to control what obligations it incurs. You act like its risk-free for the host country, but it's not. You consider the immigrant who gets a job and pays taxes, but what about the ones that fail to get jobs and need welfare?
Thank you. I'd lost track of this tool.
I typically go one step further in the "mocking http requests" and write a simple class that does nothing but make the http call and translate input/output. From there you can stub/mock that object as appropriate. That way you have a very simple interface to mock/stub against and don't have to worry about things like webmock. Well, at least until you start testing your http service interaction classes, but at least those are simpler and have relatively clearly defined uses.
I think you're a multiple out - it'll cost you $10 / day; still not to be sniffed at if you're trying to keep costs down. You pay the same for bandwidth with either solution.

We used s3 for a flash sale that even big boxes (with varnish) couldn't cope with. In our testing s3 didn't even blink (35,000 req/second). Real severs can't come close to that for the same price.
Yes (comment # 4607839).
The fundamental problem is not that insurance is tied to employment, but that you need health insurance in the first place because healthcare is so ridiculously expensive. Make it more affordable and the lack of health insurance stops being such a big problem.
I'm splitting my time between here and Slashdot nowadays. Karma is certainly a lot more difficult to get here but I think that's a function of the quite different communities.

I'm curious though, do you know if Dice has any plans for reviving Slashcode or creating a new version of it? It looks like it hasn't been touched in about two years.

In any case, thanks for everything, and I'm sorry that the site seemed to grow away from you. I think most people here agree that it was better when you were part of it.
I've often thought the same thing myself, there's no need for everyone to have some super-accurate private list of articles (that then dies with a minute or two) - one shared list per minute for everyone is plenty good enough.
I'd add two other things to fix too. The first is housing. It is not a triumph every time the cost of housing goes up. That just diverts funds that could have been spent on other things into housing, makes it considerably more expensive to move, and reduces the runway given a certain amount of funding. We would all be better off if houses were $1 each not $1m each.

The second is the pitiful broadband available all over the country. With better broadband it is far easier to take advantage of contributors all over the country. Telepresence would allow collaborators to feel as though they are in the same room, and is best served by high bandwidths. Data files keep getting larger so it helps there too. And if you are using a remote computer displaying locally then again it is best served by higher bandwidths (and lower latencies).
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CTRL next to A was, I believe, its original location. That's where it was on the Teletype Model 33, which dates back to 1963, and I'm not aware of an earlier keyboard that had a CTRL key.

In the 1970s, most terminals continued with this placement. I believe the modern practice of putting Caps Lock there came in with the first IBM PC -- copied, of course, from their typewriter keyboards.

Being a longtime Lisp Machine user, I had that key mapped to Backspace on my Unix workstations into the late 1990s, but I couldn't do that remapping on my PowerBook, so I gave up -- it was too confusing to have Backspace in different places on different machines. (I think the remapping is actually possible with OS X, but I've never bothered. It's certainly possible with Linux.)
Even with cheaper healthcare, some people are going to require inherently expensive care. Which is the whole point of insurance.
Launching Jetpack Social. What does hacker news think?
"...a sort of eBay for drugs hidden in a dark corner of the web known as Tor..."

:(
Seems like they're just trying to get some more clicks.
Checking this out now. Great recommendation. Brilliant stuff.
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I read over the question in the transcript and there was no 10-year clause, but there was also no indication that he should disclose all previous cases. To me it read as the judge verifying with those people who had been in court before that they understood that the trial was not to be influenced by their own understanding of the law as it applied to previous cases. If he wanted a complete history of all the cases, he should have asked more directly. That said, Groklaw's transcript is missing 3 pages of the discussion, so I stopped reading shortly after the judge started talking to Hogan. Maybe he asked the question more specifically in those missing pages.
The actual Samsung court filing posted on Groklaw does not include the 10 year statement. See the filing here: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf4/ApplevSamsung-2013.pdf Page 13, line 10.

Though, there is an article on Bloomberg with a response from the jury foreman: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-03/samsung-claims-jury...

There he says the court specified a 10-year limit to the lawsuit question.

So the real question is: is the juror confused about what he was asked, or is Samsung trying to get the verdict thrown own by including a half-truth in their filing.
I was going to say 'ya well, wiki doesn't have a head shaving article, but it would appear I would have been wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaved_Head

It unfortunately only says a little regarding virility.

It does however link to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichophilia which has the statement "Hair does not in itself have any intrinsic sexual value other than the attributes given to it by individuals in a cultural context." I would suspect baldness (shaved or natural) would be similarly linked entirely to cultural contexts. For instance I doubt most people see Buddhist monks as especially virile.
Likewise, what most people really care about is the delta. Absolute matches work when the initial state is 0, but it's fun watching these sorts of tests fail when that's not the case.
I actually know that it is possible to get an H-1B for a legitimate business that you, as a foreign entrepreneur, founded. I also know that such applications are very rare and very thoroughly scrutinized to make sure it's not an immigration loophole, and there is the restriction that you cannot be a majority shareholder, which kills it unless you have partners.

Less known is that a person can also sponsor you for an H-1B if you are going to be working for them.
Hi everyone,

We just launched Jetpack Social. Its a social media platform that allows businesses to create sweepstakes, daily deals, coupon offers, etc to their customers on Facebook via custom app pages.

I'm looking for some feedback on my landing page as well as the entire website and app. Looking forward to hearing from you all.
As someone firmly ensconced in the six-digit UID I'd like to say: CmdTaco I hold you personally responsible for all that lost time, and I intend to collect if I ever meet you in person. My weapon of choice will be beer, though perhaps milk is now more appropriate as ages have advanced.

Anyway, adding my thanks for a great site. I learned a bunch.
Apple only releases a new product line every ~3-5 years (iPod 2001, iPhone 2007, iPad 2010), so you shouldn't expect to be blown away every year.
I agree with the poster above: nothing is different and things are not ok.
> You could just as easily say, 1900-1950 had two world wars and hundreds(?) of millions of death, 1950-2000 had zero world wars and many fewer deaths. If we continue the historical trend, this century will see no more than a few million killed in wars. You can always cherry-pick. Look up Steven Pinker, who is convinced that global violence is the lowest it's ever been...

While deaths in wars post 1950 might be much smaller, it's still far from insignificant. Are we content that millions of lives are disposable?

It's possibly worth pointing out that of the post 1950 wars, a significant portion of them have been perpetrated by the US and it's allies, who have not yet been held to account for their crimes.

> There's an enormous growing middle class in Asia and Africa that begs to differ...

Don't just look what's happening, but ask why. The growing middle class in Asia is due to the demand created by our outsourcing of manufacturing to there, along with the growing Asian based industries. They're given more opportunities to work. Not coincidentally, this coincides with the growing unemployment and poverty in the US and Europe. It's more economical to hire Asian labour than western labour.

But with the improvements in the physical and cognitive capabilities of computers/robots, it won't be long before that huge demand that brought work to Asia is replaced by machines. Where then are those Asians going to find employment?
Drop the expensive part. Make healthcare more efficient.
You can't have it both ways: people absolutely love to trot out the platitude "competition is good" about all sorts of situations--even when open source projects are rewritten from scratch when the other project would have happily accepted patches, people are still all "competition is good"--but now, suddenly, it is all about "cooperation"? Why isn't this another "competition is good"?

Apple is not playing unfairly here (as you might argue in other battles, such as with Samsung), and neither is Google. They are competitors, and both Maps and Voice/Siri are key functionality for these mobile devices: Google spent a bunch of time building their technologies, and if Apple wants to use it on their highly profitable hardware maybe they should have to pay a lot for it; example: half their margin.

This is, then, what competition is: it is two people/companies duplicating effort to get a similar result, purposely putting each other down whenever possible, and setting up situations where they have whatever advantages the system allows over the other. The customer often loses in these situations, because so much blood and sweat has to be lost to the "fight".

The alternative, "cooperation", normally is frowned on in these circles. Even in the aforementioned cases of open source projects, such as the with web browsers (where the cost is painful fragmentation caused by some vendors misunderstanding or not disliking specifications enough to not bother implementing them) or compilers (the gcc/clang split has been brutal: clang doesn't really compile things correctly, and yet is now the only compiler from Apple for Mac OS X), people are again all "competition is good, deal with it".

Well, sometimes, often, possibly always (yes, even for the restricted domain of "prices" and even when cooperation includes "trusts", at least apparently according to Judge Posner; however you certainly needent go that far with this argument): "cooperation is better, yielding a more powerful result for less development cost"; this is, after all, the premise of open source collaboration.
...which are blatant advertisements by the much maligned green egg industry.
What's your attitude to starting a company in the USA? The Greek bailout is puny next to the projected Medicare deficit. Then add Social Security, state and local pensions...
Also pays to have complimentary skills rather than the same ones. Helps take ego and competitiveness out of the equation.
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I don't live in any of those countries. I live in the US where oil barons become presidents, oil companies can ruin vast seas and dump billions of gallons of oil into the oceans for months without hardly any repercussions, and lobbiests have more voice than sanity.

I live in a country where for the last 10 years I have watch oil defense and banking interests have trumped all else and destroyed any and all faith I once held in my government.
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Thanks for that, Matt! I've replaced the promo video with the actual demo in the post.
This is what Readability and/or Pocket are for. I rarely, if ever, read articles with their sites' native formatting.
Two Relatively Capable Technologists Fail to Play PlayStation Game
When two excited tech professionals can't manage to get a new game working on their PlayStation, is it time to reconsider game consoles? Will the web the new console?
PHP is not a HTML template engine. You have to run all your content through library functions to encode and prevent it from being interpreted as markup. That's essentially making your own half-baked template engine from scratch in PHP, and it would be just as easy in any sane language.
>Unionization is the wrong response to increasing manufacturing efficiency. The correct response is finding something else to do, with the help of subsidized retraining and education, if you prefer.

Only it's not "increasing manufacturing efficiency", it's taking advantage of worldwide labour supply (including child labor and labor under extreme exploitative conditions) _in addition_ to all-too liberal outsourcing and import laws to make wages enter a race for the bottom.

I'll take unionization.
The Nexus 7 doesn't have better specs all around—the iPhone 5's GPU is considerably more powerful.
I don't interpret this information as "defying the odds". I read this as "Japanese entrepreneurs continue to struggle under their oppressive conditions, see little hope for improving investment climate or exit options."

Unless these companies can successfully exit (after all, that's what startups are built for, right?), I would consider them to have *succumbed to the odds".

edit: If the author were actually plugged into the Japanese startup scene, they should have mentioned the recent acquisition of Crosos (a social media marketing startup) by Yahoo! Japan[1].

edit2: I just scanned through recent articles by the author, and it looks like she's not a tech beat writer but just a generalist[2]

[1] http://pr.yahoo.co.jp/release/2012/0810a.html

[2] http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t...
Betteridge's Law of Headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
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The dot enter mixtape: d3.js tutorial videos
In fact RSpec team is in the process of changing the default to the new expect matcher syntax (http://myronmars.to/n/dev-blog/2012/06/rspecs-new-expectatio...).
The World's Most Famous Drum Loop/A Lesson in Sample Copyright.
Less "what you are up to" more "I have built cool shit, might not be related to our goals though"
Indeed I am, that's what I get for envelope math.

I think there's a price/performance sweet spot where a small server with something like varnish makes a lot of sense. Move outside of it in terms of hits/day or acceptable cost/hit and S3 gets a lot more attractive, especially when you can slap CloudFront in front of it so easily.

Actually, looking at the CloudFront pricing, unless you plan on doing a lot of cache invalidations it comes out much cheaper than S3.
I'm almost ashamed of how excited I was while reading this. Default layouts of keyboards are incredibly ineffective for programming, and I find customization of layouts to be very important.

The best thing I ever did was adopting something I found on some dvorak layouts; using AltGr to make any special symbols. Now, AltGr+qwerasdfzxcv makes ()[]^${};/&! for me, which covers 90% of the special characters I write. Not leaving the alphabetical keys for any of these does wonders; It's the little things, really.

I'll also try to implement the shift-key training through xmodmap. I'll post the results if I manage!
Google made a mobile OS because no other company had the software expertise to even remotely challenge Apple. Before Android the OS software from Nokia, Samsung etc. looked like bad jokes compared to iOS. Google created an open source platform that any manufacturer was welcome to use and in doing so blew open a previously monopolised smartphone market. Google's market is selling advertising, it doesn't care if it sells ads off Android phones, or iPhones. The health of the entire internet connected ecosystem is in Google's interest. In what way could you define Google's move to get involved in mobile as "nonsensical aggression"? The aggression at play here is Apple's, voice-search and maps are low hanging fruit for easy monetization, Apple don't want Google anywhere near them and they're willing to screw users to get there.
I'll file in my "department of huh?" folder--I give up. Thanks for pointing out fair-use rules and commercial speech. Back to the point ... any thoughts on power laws and file system size distributions? Are they lognormal, power law in tails, double Pareto, etc. Is the generative model based on some kind of herding behavior --preferential attachment (Yule-Simon,etc)-- or something else? Feel free to take a histogram of your own file system and tell us what comes up.
I started a company with my then-boyfriend, now husband. I can't imagine founding with anyone else.
Love the story behind Storied! I'm fortunate to not have anyone in my family suffering from Alzheimer's, but I can only imagine how hard it must be to see someone struggle to recall people and events that define them, and then to have something that can help bring some of it back.
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Anyone have a simple way to achieve the Caps-lock training wheels in linux?
I didn't know Rap Genius was a YC graduate, but I should have -- what they're doing is basically what every lyrics site of questionable legality should have been doing years ago, and they're doing it very well.

SongMeanings specifically comes to mind as a site which seems to have stagnated considerably after initially having a strong basis of user contribution.

(By the way, there's already a lot of poetry and prose on Rap Genius -- for example, http://rapgenius.com/search?q=shakespeare)
Um, that didn't happen in my US jury experience. It was more of a "short straw" kind of thing.

I suppose a loudmouth could have gotten the foremanship though.
> "We would all be better off if houses were $1 each not $1m each."

We would? Last I checked $1 can't even build some branches and a tarp.

But to address your main point:

> "It is not a triumph every time the cost of housing goes up."

Indeed. Neither is it a triumph every time the cost of food goes up. Or the cost of gas. Or the cost of clothing. Or the cost of basic needs like the plumber or the mechanic. We would all (on a micro scale) be much better off if prices simply stayed put.

Except in an economy where all prices are fixed your entrepreneurship wouldn't go anywhere either... What you're proposing is a complete removal of the free market economy and putting vast portions of it under central planning. History has some indications as to how that works (tip: "disaster" doesn't begin to describe it).
We should sell this bumper sticker: DISQUS, doing the hard work so you can scale your static site.
I'm curious as to why they created a completely separate app. Why not just integrate App.net functionality into Tweetbot? I'd certainly be much more likely to use it that way... and I even paid the $100 developer fee for app.net.
Without a scale those images are largely useless.
There's a difference between allowing users to install any app you want, and actively preventing the installation of an app or app store.

If someone creates software that runs on a game console, or calculator, and distributes it where users have a choice to install it or not, I agree with cs702, it should be up to the user/owner of the device if they want to take the risks to install it or not, the manufacture of the device shouldn't actively prevent such installation, but simply say, "If you do this, we won't support it, and it voids your warranty, but it is your device now."

They don't even after to make it easy for the users. It's not that Apple should provide another way for them to install another app store, that's a feature. It's that Apple shouldn't religiously hunt and destroy every means of jailbreaking just _because_ it allows users out of the Apple Control Sphere.
I think that is why it works well for me and my brother. I handle the tech and he handles everything else.
What's the issue with that? The .onion sites definitely make up a dark corner.
The biggest challenge would be encouraging growth with people outside of your base.

You become a $50m company, and the young manager you hired is turning out to be better than your sister/brother/wife/husband... are you ready to replace one of those people with an outside person?

As an outside individual I tend to be wary of working for a family run business because the chances are that I will never be able to replace the owner's wife/brother/sister/husband, instead my maximum growth will be the tier below the family.
Well it shows the Google finally understands just-in-time or opportunistic Marketing.

Their autonomous driving cars are going to change every market out there.
Except for the fact that Apple has NEVER been benevolent. My first brush with Apple was choosing to buy a Creative mp3 player (despite literally everyone I know having an iPod as their player) because of the absolutely ridiculous restrictions that Apple put on copying files from the device to a computer. This wasn't a "hacker" problem that "typical" users didn't face; I've lost count of the number of people who asked me how to do exactly that with their iPods over the following few years.
I've always been baffled at the characterization of Apple as focused on the user; user satisfaction has always seemed like a side effect of their main goal, which is profitability. Obviously in the ideal case, these two goals should be one and the same, but it's pretty obvious that very, very often, they are not. There are always things a company can do to help their market position that hurt their users, and Apple is practically a pioneer in coming up with and implementing them.
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A connex (45' long container trailer) looks to cost around $1000-$3000 on eBay, and I think I've heard that's a typical price for one. I'd budget another $3000 to make it livable - installing drywall walls, electrical outlets, plumbing a toilet and mini-kitchenette, and a door and window.

The biggest price will be land.

Interestingly: http://containerhouse.info/how-to-buy-container-home/
I'm pretty sure the newer TOS for Twitter precludes that.
I agree with you. And I also feel a bit offended with the parent comment. If you're not an immigrant trying to overcome all the hoops and doing ridiculously steps to try to stay "legal" in order to pursue your goals then you probably don't get it... And your goals will (although probably not directly) translate to improve the economy.

I just don't get it. We as immigrants pay as much taxes as anyone else, however we have far less benefits and probably much more obligations. This freaking country was founded by immigrants, unless you tell me that all the senate is constituted by native americans, don't bring the crap that immigrants will somehow fuck the economy. I would actually like to see evidence that having more flexible immigrant laws will harm the economy.

Also, having your health system tied to corporate America, and not something universal is just stupid: how is it reasonable to tie something as important as health to your employer?

Anyway, I don't see anything changing anytime soon. So we should just stick to complain every now and then and keep doing what we know best (everyone knows what that is for them).